Questions tagged [rationale]

It seems everyone doing web applications nowadays wants to use MVC for everything. I find it hard to convince myself to use this pattern, however. I understand the general idea is to separate the backend logic from the frontend that represents the…

On a related question, it has been clarified why C++ is not compatible with C in many aspects. However C++ is still a "hybrid"* language. And unfortunately, many programmers still consider C++ as a "C with streams and built-in strings". That results…